June 20, 1995
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
No. 94-2269
LEROY GEORGE BENNETT,
Petitioner,
v.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,
Respondent.
ON PETITION FOR REVIEW OF AN ORDER
OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS
Before
Cyr, Boudin and Lynch,
Circuit Judges.
John S. Pomeroy on brief for petitioner.
Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division,
Emily Anne Radford & Charles E. Pazar, Attorneys, Office of
Immigration Litigation Civil Division, on brief for respondent.
Per Curiam. Petitioner Leroy Bennett appeals the
decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying him
discretionary relief from deportation. 8 U.S.C. 1182(c).
We have reviewed the administrative record carefully,
including the decision of the immigration judge, and the
briefs of the parties. We find no evidence that petitioner
received anything other than a full and impartial hearing in
this case. Moreover, the record supports the finding that
petitioner exhibited a "pattern of serious criminal
misconduct" over a period of several years, as well as the
finding that petitioner failed to meet his burden of showing
that he had been rehabilitated.
The immigration judge made specific findings as to the
positive and negative factors to be considered in this case
and explained how he reached his decision. Petitioner has
not shown that that decision was "made without a rational
explanation, inexplicably departed from established policies,
or rested on an impermissible basis." Williams v. INS, 773
F.2d 8, 9 (1st Cir. 1985) (explaining grounds on which INS
decision may be overturned). We find no abuse of discretion
in the Board's ultimate decision that discretionary relief
was not warranted. See Gouveia v. INS, 980 F.2d 814, 819
(1st Cir. 1992) (refusing to "second-guess the Board on the
manner in which it weights different factors when arriving at
its ultimate decision").
Affirmed.
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